Growing old in early modern Europe : cultural representations /
Campbell, Erin J.
Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Appropriating the ancients and representing the aged -- Medical representations of old age: the influence of non-medical texts / Daniel Schf̃er -- Time's whirligig: images of old age in Coriolanus, Francis Bacon and Thomas Newton / Nina Taunton -- Youth, old age and male self-fashioning: the appropriation of the anacreontic figure of the old man by Jonson and his 'sons' / Stella Achilleos -- Aging at court -- Old age in Castglione's The Book of the Courtier / Maria Teresa Ricci -- Aging the lover: the Posies of George Gascoigne / Kevin P. Laam -- The aging self -- 'Should I as yet call you old?' Testing the boundaries of female old age in early modern England / Aki C. L. Beam -- Thematic reflections on old age in Titian's late works / Zbynek Smetana -- Power, fragility, and anxiety -- Visible signs of aging: images of old women in renaissance Venice / Mary E. Frank -- 'Unenduring' beauty: gender and old age in early modern art and aesthetics / Erin J. Campbell -- Cosimo's Black Widow / Allison Levy -- Sans wife: sexual anxiety and the old man in Shakespeare / Philip D. Collington.
Older people
Aging
Aging in literature.
Life cycle, Human, in literature.
European literature.